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Enemies breack through roman borders for the first time. This is important because it would be one of the major reasons why rome was to fall.
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Province: a principal administrative division of certain countries or empires.
Aquaducts might help by allowing all people to have water in their village.
Roads might help because they would increase ease of acces to the village wich in turn would increase trade.
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There are many reasons why the western empire fell including:
- Disease
- invasions
- Civil war
- They were cruel to their subjects
- barbarians tht they were paying to fight against the barbarians turned against them -
There are many reasons why the Easten empire prospered while the western empire fell including:
- Less barbarian invasions
- better defended
- better geography
- was richer
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There were many accomplishments of the byzantine empire including:
- preservation of greek and roman culture
- cultural diffusion
- power of survival
- could function without good emperor
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There are many similarities and diffrences between Constantinople and Rome including:
Similarities:
- both capital of roman empire
- both incredibly wealthy
- both had standad roman facilities (forum etc.)
- both lasted a long time
- both had powerful armies
Diffrences:
- Constantinople was more greek influenced
- rome had pagan beginings constantinople was always christian
- rome had a democracy and constantinople had emperor always
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The edict of Milan is the agreemen for religious tolerance towards christianity. This is important because it was the first step towards christianity becoming the empire national religion.
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Constantine has Byzantium completely rebuilt to be his capital. This is important because later the roman empire would split and Byzantium would be the eastern empire's capital.
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Rome falls to the invading barbarians. This is important because it marks the beginning of the destruction of the western empire.
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The last of the Roman emperors falls. The western empire is completely overtaken by barbarians. This is important because it marks the fall of the Western empire.
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Constantiople erupts into riots. The emperor justinian is about to flee but his wife the emporess stops him and strengthens his resolve and he puts down the riots. This is important because it was a major crossroads in the Byzantine empires history. Who knowwhat would have happened if the emperor Justinian had left and they had appointed a new emperor?
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Justinians heirs rule of the byzantine empire peacefully.
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The turks take over The byzantine empire. This is important because it is the end of the easter empire.
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Diocletian becomes emperor and immediately changes things. He splits the empire into 4 more manageable parts. This is important because it led to the major split betewwen the easter half of the roman empire and the west.
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Thodosius 1 dies and his will splits the empire in twain. This is important because it is the begginning of the end for the the western empire.
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Emperor Justinian condensed all the 1600 books of law into 4652 laws. It gave more rights to women children and slaves but it's punishments were much more harsh than it's precessor's punishments. A crminal could have body parts cut off and property taken away. It is sinificant because many nations used it as a model for their laws.
